{"id":492615,"date":"2026-10-11T12:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492615\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:56:40","slug":"costly-study-of-county-inefficiency-one-more-sign-of-countys-dysfunction-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492615\/","title":{"rendered":"Costly study of county inefficiency one more sign of county\u2019s dysfunction \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201c\u2018Stuck in the mud\u2019: $17M spent, one report delivered\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/10\/04\/stuck-in-the-mud-17m-and-only-one-report-later-voters-will-decide-whether-to-overhaul-this-county-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 4<\/a>): So, our rudderless incompetent elected leaders have finally noticed that after spending $17 million and getting just one report in five years from their team studying county government efficiency does not represent good value to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, the one report was based on a small, outdated program. Of course, we all know the obvious solution to fix this. More taxes!<\/p>\n<p>With elections coming up, I\u2019m sure California taxpayers will agree that approving more taxpayer money for our elected leaders will fix the problem, because that\u2019s what they saw on a TV commercial. And we wonder why everything is so darn expensive in this state.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Kaplan, La Jolla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201c\u2018Stuck in the mud\u2019: $17M spent, one report delivered\u201d (Oct. 4): So, our rudderless incompetent elected leaders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-492615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}